A Salisbury martial-arts instructor who engaged in sexually explicit telephone calls and emails with a 15-year-old female student outside of class did not violate a Maryland law prohibiting sexual exploitation of a minor by someone with temporary care, custody or supervision of the child, a divided Maryland top court ruled Tuesday.

Maryland’s top court has overturned a man’s conviction for child sexual abuse, saying his incriminating statements via telephone to his now-adult victim were recorded without the “supervision” of a police officer, in violation of state law, and thus should not have been admitted at trial.

Two Baltimore schools police officers have been charged after cellphone video surfaced showing one of them slapping and kicking a teen at a school while the second officer stood by. Anthony Spence, 44, and Saverna Bias, 53, turned themselves in ...

FREDERICK — A Frederick County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally abusing his 3-month-old son. The Frederick News-Post reports that 27-year-old Ryan Huffer of Jefferson was sentenced Wednesday in Frederick. The court suspended another 20 ...

Child advocates opposed doctors and psychologists Thursday over legislation that would require agencies investigating potential child abuse or neglect to file a complaint with a licensing board when they have “substantial grounds to believe” that a health-care provider, police officer or teacher “knowingly failed” to report suspected abuse or neglect.

A defense attorney urged Maryland’s top court Tuesday to overturn a man’s conviction for child sexual abuse, saying his incriminating statements via telephone to his now-adult victim were recorded without the “supervision” of a police officer, in violation of state law.

ROCKVILLE — An Iraq war veteran has pleaded guilty to his role in the death of his 3-year-old son months after he and his wife adopted the boy from South Korea. Thirty-eight-year-old Brian O’Callaghan of Damascus pleaded guilty Monday to ...